This article reconstructs Vittorio Benussi’s (1878–1927) research on autonomia funzionale emotiva [emotional functional autonomy], carried out in Padua between 1920 and 1927. Its aim is to demonstrate that Benussi believed—against the intellectualist mainstream of the psychology of his time and even against the Brentanian-Meinongian tradition in which he was educated—in the fundamental independence of emotions from the cognitive functions that usually accompany them. To study this autonomy, Benussi used hypnosis as an experimental tool designed to disassemble the phenomena of mental life from their global functional unity. Benussi thus compared the work of psychologists with that of physicists or chemists. This was a unique undertaking for theoretical ambitions and experimental techniques, which was completely abandoned after his premature death. To conclude, the legacy of Benussi’s research on emotions is highlighted, and the resumption of his research model within current studies on the relationships between emotion and cognition is encouraged.

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维托里奥·贝努西（Vittorio Benussi），催眠方法和情绪上的自主权。

本文重构了维托里奥·贝努西（Vittorio Benussi，1878年至1927年）在1920年至1927年之间在帕多瓦开展的关于自主性功能情感（情绪功能自主）的研究。其目的是证明贝努西坚信自己是当时和之后心理学的主流。甚至违反了他受过教育的不伦瑞尼亚-美浓农的传统-情感与通常伴随的认知功能基本不相关。为了研究这种自主性，贝努西使用催眠作为一种实验工具，旨在将精神生活现象从其整体功能统一中分解出来。贝努西因此将心理学家的工作与物理学家或化学家的工作进行了比较。这是一项用于理论野心和实验技术的独特工作，在他过早去世后就被彻底抛弃了。